So we have 2 medium sized dogs who love the water and love going with us wherever that may be. I want to take them on our new boat but fear for their claws and the damage to the seats. Does anyone have something they do to help keeps seats safe with dogs on the boat and has anyone ever tried putting dog boots on their dog?

They are mutts.. One has some lab and maybe a little pit, the other is a bulldog mix of some sort. They are like 40 pounds each, one was a tiny puppy someone dumped at my father-in-laws house 5 years ago and the other I got from a girl I knew who was going away to college and wasn't able to take her with. She was a puppy then, she's about 2+ now. Mutts are the smartest dogs imo. File their nails? Like trim them and take the edges down with a nail file?

I've got a German shep mix and a lab pit and I've brought em on. The boots seem to be a good idea but idk if they can swim in them. I always lay towels down on all my seats. Haven't had any issues with them scratching the gel coat or tearing anything. When I throttle up though they run up to my gfs lap.

Vinyl in most wake boats is so thick a dog would have a very difficult time doing any damage. Maybe if you have an old bayliner or something. I have never seen a dog damage the vinyl with their paws on newer boats.

Sometimes we have more dogs than people. I have never had any dog scratches on my vinyl or jelcoat. I have 80lb Weimar's and a 30lb Cocker Spaniel. You should be fine. My wife has purchased these "balloon booties" but we use those so they dont burn their feet on the docks or hot pavement. I have noticed if you leave them on, it makes it very difficult for them to swim.

I am fairly anal about the upkeep of my boat (my 2003 Malibu still looks brand new) and I would say go for it with very little worries.

We don't professionally groom our dogs just trim their nails down. i figured a few $12 extra long towels from Walmart is cheap insurance. But then again can you really put a price on letting our dogs enjoy what we love too.

Holy crap man. It is the 21st Century. Nobody cares your brother's gay. He never said he hated gays either.quit jumping to conclusions. You're the only one who's hung up over it and cares. Geezus people are so thin skinned these days. Man alive. No one's hatin on your bro for his lifestyle. Let's get back to the pups

We don't professionally groom our dogs just trim their nails down. i figured a few $12 extra long towels from Walmart is cheap insurance. But then again can you really put a price on letting our dogs enjoy what we love too.

Doubt if he was using a word pertains skin color it would be so trivial. No matter what you say it was used as a derogatory term. Just my 2 cents. I have seen what words can do to a person. Getting off the soap box now. BTW. Great dogs.

Grinding their nails with a dremel. Just introduce it slowly with treats keeping them below fear threshold. If you never make it a fight, it will not be a fight. Here's a video I did of me working with my latest puppy who is 4 now.

A skier or snowboarder who sucks and is usually spotted wearing clothing from 1983, but other clothing styles for them do exist. A dead giveaway of a gaper is when their pants are tucked into their boots and the famous "Gaper Gap" (a gap between the helmet/hat and the goggles). Gapers sometimes temporarily inhabit the entrance to a terrain park. They will sit on their ass for a good 5-10 minutes talking about what they are going to do of a that "jump" or "rail" while everyone behind them goes before them and they stare at them with their mouth gaped open. Once they finally decide to leave their home at the entrance of the terrain park, the gaper will eventually decide to either roll over the jump and mess up all the lips, or they will try and actually hit the jump. If this occurs, they generally end up coming up half way short of the landing on their ass and yardsale, while the person behind them runs them over and/or yells at them. Gapers may also make turns or snowplow down green runs and sometime try to act cool by crouching and sticking their ski poles in the air but are totally oblivioius to the fact that they look even more stupid than they previously were. Gapers often find themselves on the top of a black diamond run because they are dumbasses and can't read a map. When they approach the run, they may either turn around, stare at it, sit down on the top of it, or just simply walk down the side...

Grinding their nails with a dremel. Just introduce it slowly with treats keeping them below fear threshold. If you never make it a fight, it will not be a fight. Here's a video I did of me working with my latest puppy who is 4 now.

Do you guys let your dog jump off the side of the boat from the padded engine cover? Our lab likes to but I'm afraid he will scratch the top gel coat as he plants his rear paws on the edge of the boat as he jumps...

Case in point. ^. He is classless and a bigot. He wouldn't dare do this if it was about color of skin. I hope Chris never has a son or someone he cares about have to be subjected to his hateful rhetoric. By allowing this on this forum David Williams is condoning this hate.

Do you guys let your dog jump off the side of the boat from the padded engine cover? Our lab likes to but I'm afraid he will scratch the top gel coat as he plants his rear paws on the edge of the boat as he jumps...

My dog doesn't like to swim, but she does like the sun pad area a lot. The only way we let her in and out of the boat is off the swim platform typically.

My dog is fine jumping from the sun deck. the issue is when she wants to come back in The swim platform takes a beating. Me gelcoat is perfectly ok. The vest with the strap actually helps us out. She doesn't scuff the gel at all, but she has real long legs and can jump up top easily from the platform.

Completely agree with using the Dremel on the dog's nails. Easiest way to keep the nails rounded and smooth. One of mine accepted the Dremel right away, the other took months of conditioning. They both now equate the Dremel with tasty treats, making their weekly nail filing a pleasure.

If there's one thing on the boat and in life in general I enjoy is the simplicity of a dog's life: I'm always reminded of when they're out with me: life is simple - sniff, eat, sleep in no particular order and if we go on the boat nothing else matters ...

If there's one thing on the boat and in life in general I enjoy is the simplicity of a dog's life: I'm always reminded of when they're out with me: life is simple - sniff, eat, sleep in no particular order and if we go on the boat nothing else matters ...

I have Labs and I use little kids socks on their feet they work great. In the past I have tried the little paw pads you can get at the pet stores for hunting. Typically they don't like them on their feet and want to take them off. Once I use the little kids socks they never had a problem with them and would keep them on all day.